IN RUGBY CHAPEL.
ARNOLD and Stanley, sowers of good seed, Master and pupil here are graven in stone ; One with strong brow to crush the evil down, Strong faith to inspire, to renovate, to lead : And one, though gentler-moulded, yet if need Arose, in freedom's cause keen swordsman known; Whose vivid glance on the far past was thrown, Scenes dear to fame, noble or saintly deed.
Seekers of truth ! Ye saw with unsealed eyes,
In you self slumbered: therefore scarce more wide—
Be this our spur to lives of high emprise,— Is hie renown who sang by Avonside.
Be this our boast, the world our debtor lies, Richer for that these twain have lived and died.
H. T. R.